RUSSIAN UTOPIA

Synopsis

Moscow 2012, year of Putin’s re-election. For the first time in 15 years, the population is rising for political change, starting with the 20-somethings who make up the National Bolshevik party. Their guru: Eduard Limonov –punk poet turned radical leader. Kolya, Zhenia, Marat, Anya, Shuka and Tvorog come from the provinces of a country destroyed by authoritarianism and brutal capitalism. With no true political platform, beliefs that flirt with extremism and revolution as their sole religion, they look up to Stalin and Robespierre, Gandhi and the Che. Russian Utopia accompanies them in a historical moment when they can believe, more than ever, that their dreams will meet reality. Immersion in the ironies of a Revolution to come, between fantasies and failures of a lost generation, Russian Utopia is the bittersweet face of eternal revolutionary dreams.